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Old 07-22-2003, 10:23 PM   #1
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cd-rom drives

for some reason windows xp is not dedect my 2 cd-rom drives but when i go to bios they are there. is there anyone out there that can shed some lite onto this.

when i go to device manager it has the ! by the cd-rom drives

my computer is athlon 2800 xp
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geforce 4
samsung dvd-rom sd-616
lite-on ltr-32123s
ummmmm anything eles u need ask
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Old 07-22-2003, 10:54 PM   #2
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Is this a new machine or a working one that went wrong?
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Old 07-22-2003, 11:18 PM   #3
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working one that suddently went wrong
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HI

Have you tried using system restore?... or, you can remove both drives from Device Manager then reboot and see if XP will detect them again... let us know

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Old 07-22-2003, 11:48 PM   #5
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i have tryed sytem restore and it did nothing...
windows dectects it then reinstalls it but i get the same problem and it comes up with the ! next to it again.

it also gives this error by it
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Windows cannot start this hardware device because its configuration information (in the registry) is incomplete or damaged. (Code 19)
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well... i looked up Code 19... and it says it pertains to windows 2000... but check it out...

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;295773
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Old 07-23-2003, 12:17 AM   #7
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i cant find an options in my bios for coms
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Old 07-23-2003, 01:03 AM   #8
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Check the jumpers are properly set. The drive on the end of the cable must be master, the one in the middle must be set to slave.

You can also set both in CS if you are using an 80 wire IDE cable.
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Old 07-23-2003, 01:54 AM   #9
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i gave up and just reinstalled windows...and now it works fine thanks for the help all
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